Virtual love: is your Valentine an avatar?

Over the past decade, technology has impacted all areas of our lives. We look at developments in digital romance and question whether the future of love is virtual
In Her, a film arguably about the future of relationships, Joaquin Phoenix portrays a lonely, alienated and heartbroken man who reverts to technology to fulfil his romantic and sexual needs. The technology in question is an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm (the voiceover by Scarlett Johansson) whose only weakness is the inabili